Tuesday, February 06, 2018

Over two years ago, we became the first of the Linden Lab Official Community Gateways, with new residents 'born' directly in London City and starting their adventure here in Second Life.

We have a trusted team of specially trained residents known as London Support, helping new users acclimatize to the virtual-world.

We are currently looking to increase our team of Support Agents, particularly during the UK daytime Monday to Friday hours (9-to-5) which is from 1am PDT. A shift is just 2 hours, and is semi-regular ie not every single day. But if you find that you are online at times between 1am PDT and 9am PDT and you enjoy helping new users, please get in touch.

You do not have to be an expert, but you do have to be friendly and engaging.

For information and an application form, click the Our Team button at the top of this page.

Sunday, September 03, 2017

Almost Two years ago, London City, and Firestorm became the first of the next generation Official Community Gateways to come on-line.

Since then over 300,000 new residents have begun their journey in Second Life, via the portal operated by London City.

The gateway has the emphasis on quick-starting a resident by showing them the basics of walking, running, camera controls and jumping. These are the bare bone essentials needed to begin their adventure, and if they decide for a more in-depth tutorial, they can take a tour of the full region and follow the examples - or - they can choose to jump right into the community region London City and meet other residents.

From there, our Support team will show them how to customize their avatar, dance, shop, create landmarks and search for places and events of interest. For those who want to take it to another level, London City also offers building and scripting classes.

This video shows the kind of group events enjoyed by residents being born into London City Official Community Gateway.

It is Second Life's 14th Birthday. Each year a group of regions is pushed together to form an almighty arena of user-created content, to showcase the amazing wealth of talent that Second Life residents enjoy.

The Birthday celebrations begin today at 12pm SL time (8pm UK) and we hope you will visit London City at SL14B.

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Since the beginning of the year, London City Community Gateway has offered an in-depth tutorial showing many of the aspects of the Second Life Viewer. The complete tutorial is great for people who want to have a broader understanding of game-play before embarking on their adventure, but we also recognize that many want to get involved and meet people straight away.

From today, we're pleased to include our brand new Quick-Start Initial Experience, for residents 'born' directly into London City. The aim of this new portion of the gateway, is to have residents up and running and to teach them the basics quickly. They can then choose to go on to the full tutorial, or immediately enter the community, with the option of visiting the in-depth tutorial at a later time.

We hope you will agree that this new layout, giving better choices for new residents, offers the best of both worlds.

Sunday, February 28, 2016

London City is pleased to announce that the New User Community Gateway is now on-line, with over 600 new residents born directly into London City since Friday evening.

New accounts will experience an orientation tutorial which demonstrates the essentials needed for the first hour in Second Life, then pass through into the original community region, London City.

London City has always offered help for New Residents including an extensive Freebie Shop, one-to-one training sessions and building lessons. Taking this to another level with a dedicated Community Gateway in which they are able to hold classes and show more in-depth orientations, adds a very useful additional layer to the initial experience.

Help is on hand as always, with the London Support team, and you may well see a Linden presence throughout the weekend as they work to ensure that New Residents born to London City get the best possible first impression of Second Life.

London City thanks its community for being instrumental in making this Gateway a reality, and for being ambassadors in representing all the good things in Second Life.

We are very fortunate that London City group memberships now total a quarter of a million residents and to that end we would like to draw upon your wealth of experience and invite your comments, suggestions and ideas for additional 'instructions' that should be included.

Please visit London City Community Gateway and imagine yourself as a brand new user. If you have a suggestion for something we should include as a basic but essential skill that a new user will need within the first hour of their Second Life, please drop a note card in-world to Billy Arentire.

At this point we are not seeking to demonstrate building skills as a part of the tour as this will be included in a dedicated area.

Monday, January 18, 2016

Mr and Mrs P have reopened their News Agents in the London Road in London City Gateway.
This up and coming road has already attracted the charity chain Charidee who moved in today, right next to the Job Centre.

Sunday, January 10, 2016

Whilst the building for London City Gateway continues, we are pleased to let you know that the initial phase of the completed building work will give a good flavour of what is yet to come in the Gateway in terms of additional content, useful guides and free items.

The region is now open for Preview.. and by preview we mean that not everything is working yet, not all texturing is complete and there are a lot of things still to be set in their correct position.

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

New residents joining Second Life will soon be asked for their preferred location when initially joining the world.

We are proud to represent the UK choice and to offer the gateway for London via our new region, The London City Gateway.
Building work continues, but here is the first glimpse of London City Community Gateway..

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

LondonCity, a community estate
in Second Life since 2009 is pleased to announce the expansion of the estate,
adding a new region, with an exclusive focus on new users.

London City and their team of thirty "London
Support" agents has for many years, given specialist help to new residents
in the hope of kick-starting their Second Life with a powerful and impressive
immersive experience, fast tracking the user to the best experiences Second
Life has to offer.

We are pleased to announce that we have been invited by Linden
Lab to offer an officially endorsed Community Gateway which will be known as
"London City Gateway".

This dedicated region is under development and will begin to
host and assist new users as they are 'born' directly into the Gateway, in the
new year.

London City Gateway will be a low lag, fun environment where
new users can quickly learn the initial skill sets needed for the best possible
experience in Second Life.

We very much hope that LondonCity
will play a big part in the retention of new users as they begin their Second
Life journeys and to help the further growth of the Second Life community.

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Welcome to the London City Blog.

London City is the most popular destination on the Second Life virtual world grid. Closely following real life events in London as they happen, our 3D recreation, with themed events, competitions, concerts and community participation is a great way to meet friends across the internet and form lasting friendships